The National Girl Child Day Celebration

The National Girl Child Day was celebrated by the Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 11, Chandigarh, by organizing various academic programmes. Principal Professor Anita Kaushal on the occasion said that education is vital for strengthening future and security of girls in the society. She appreciated and encouraged the students and faculty to organize more educational dialogues on gender and valuing girl child. On the occasion all the faculty members and non teaching staff took an oath in regard to Beti Bachao Beti Padhao and promised to support the ideas and objectives of the scheme which are to prevent gender biased sex selective elimination, to ensure survival and protection of the girl child and to ensure education and participation of the girl child. On the occasion the College also prepared a collage of pictures of faculty members with their daughters and the same was uploaded at the College Facebook account. The teaching and non teaching staff also shared their selfies taken with their daughters on their whatapp status and other social media platforms while others uploaded logo of BBBP with message on their social media accounts.. It is important to mention that the College is celebrating National Girl Child Week by organizing webinars, poster making, poem writing, slogan writing and essay writing competitions on topics valuing girl child from 20th January to 25th January, 2022.